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Toronto, Ontario – 29 March, 2017 – SmartCap Technologies, the thought leaders in fatigue management, today announced the availability of their Life by SmartCap App on the Geotab Marketplace, a go-to source for top organizations requiring GPS fleet management and vehicle tracking solutions.

The cloud-hosted analytics gathers the broadest spectrum of fatigue data including everything from company-wide holistic trends to individual profiling. With real-time alerts delivered in MyGeotab, managers and dispatchers have powerful insight for decision support, risk mitigation and operational efficiencies.

Life by SmartCap is a world leading, effective fatigue monitoring solution for reducing risk, increasing safety and efficiency while improving driver retention through health and wellness programs.

The Life by SmartCap App works hand in hand with the wearable EEG LifeBand to provide real-time fatigue level alerts anywhere, anytime via Bluetooth®. Installed on your preferred device, the Life App provides the driver with actionable visual and audible alerts on a user-friendly interface, allowing them to proactively manage their own alertness.

SmartCap Technologies Director of Sales, Brady Marcus, shared his thoughts on the new alliance, “Our partnership with Geotab reflects our shared goal of providing safer roads that get everyone home safe every day, while increasing productivity and efficiency.”

“Discovering new tools to improve on-road safety is a consistent focus for Geotab. With real-time fatigue monitoring alerts, Life by SmartCap will not only help improve driver safety, but is also a true testament to the innovative technology available on the Geotab Marketplace,” said Joey Marlow, Vice President of U.S. Operations.

The Geotab Marketplace is a robust complement to the MyGeotab platform that provides customers with an extensive ecosystem of valuable business-focused applications and add-ons. Utilized by companies with fleets large and small, the Marketplace offers key applications to more than 14,000 Geotab customers and is on track to feature over 200 third party applications by the end of the year, further solidifying the company’s leadership in commercial telematics.

Geotab securely connects commercial vehicles to the internet, providing advanced web-based analytics to better manage your fleet. Geotab’s open platform and Marketplace, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with a company’s other data assets. As an IoT hub, the in-vehicle device provides additional functionality through IOX Add-Ons. Processing more than 1 billion data points a day, Geotab leverages big data and machine learning to improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety, and achieve stronger compliance to regulatory changes. The company’s products are represented and sold worldwide through its Authorized Geotab Resellers. To learn more, please visit www.geotab.com and follow us @GEOTAB and on LinkedIn.

About SmartCap Technologies

SmartCap Technologies produces a headband that can be easily integrated into any headwear (cap, hardhat, beanie or worn as a headband). The wearable technology uses the gold standard in sleep science, EEG technology to measure brain activity to determine an individual’s alertness and fatigue levels. Our previous product the SmartCap has been used across 5 different continents and has been adopted by several industries, including trucking. In 2016 our new product Life by SmartCap was launched along with the Life App that can connect to the LifeBand via Bluetooth. Users are able to be their own fatigue manager and monitor their fatigue anywhere, anytime. The headband is now self-serviceable and has 7x longer battery life. To learn more, please visit www.smartcaptech.com and follow us @smartcaponline and on LinkedIn.